This Civil War Harper's Weekly has a variety of important
stories and pictures. It shows the events unfold as they happened and are
reported to eye-witnesses to the events. The paper covers the Battle of
Harper's Ferry, one of the early conflicts in the war. It also has important
content on the Annapolis Naval Academy and scenes of the destruction of the
Norfolk Navy Yard.

THE BURNING OF THE UNITED STATES
ARSENAL AT HARPER'S FERRY, 10 P.M. APRIL 18, 1861.-[SKETCHED BY D. H. STROTHER.]

The movement was regarded as a
military necessity, and as such executed. To many of us who looked on, the
scenes of that night were inexpressibly sad and solemn. The clouds of fire
rolled up magnificently from the depths of the romantic gorge, illuminating the
confluent rivers and the encircling cliffs for miles around, each rock and
pinnacle associated with the name of some one of our great historic

founders. In the martial
column revealed by the blaze there stood arrayed, with deadly ball and bayonet,
the first-born pride of a hundred hitherto peaceful and happy families. In the
town below, between them and their enemy, were neighbors, friends, and
fellow-citizens—the enemies themselves our late patented defenders and
countrymen. Brethren, what has forced this fatal necessity upon us?

" As the smoke and vapor of a
furnace goeth before the fire, so reviling before blood." D. H. S. We also
publish a view of FORT McHENRY, at Baltimore. This fort is held by the United
States, and in the event of a fight at Baltimore would probably shell the city.
It stands at the extremity of a tongue of land near the geographical centre of
the city. In the war of 1812 it

was bombarded by the British
fleet, without success. It was of this bombardment that the famous song " The
Star Spangled Banner" was written.